Studio One project to MP3

Drop a .song to get an MP3, or select a file — it opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to get an MP3 out of a Studio One project

Somebody sent you a .song and you want to hear it, or you made it and need an MP3 on a machine without Studio One. The file holds the arrangement and the console; its audio lives in a Media folder beside it, and its instruments are plugins that live on the computer the song was made on. What the .song itself holds is the music as written — every instrument part, its notes, where it falls and how hard. That is what gets played here, with the recordings when the folder comes too.

  1. Drop your .song: The song is read in your browser — nothing is uploaded to read it, and no account is needed. If you have the song folder (the .song with its Media folder beside it), choose that instead, or drop a zip of it: the recordings its audio tracks play come with it.
  2. It renders by itself: The studio opens on the arrangement and starts the MP3 straight away. Each instrument track's parts — on the layer that plays — are played by a stand-in picked from the track's name, rendered on our server from a General MIDI sound set; recordings from the folder play as recorded.
  3. Download the MP3: One 256 kbps file of the whole arrangement lands in your downloads. Your first three a month need no account; a free account gives you 120.

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Questions about the Studio One project to MP3 converter?

We have answers.

Can I convert a .song to MP3 without Studio One?

Yes — drop it here. What you get is the arrangement played on stand-in instruments, plus the recordings when the song folder comes with it: not the mix Studio One makes with the song's own plugins. That one only comes out of Studio One.

Is it free? Do I need an account?

Your first three MP3s a month need no account. A free account raises that to 120 a month. The .song is read in your browser and the stand-in render runs on our server, so there is nothing to install either way.

Will it sound like the original?

No. Presence, Mai Tai, Impact and the song's VST and AU plugins are not in the file. The notes, their timing and the tempo survive the trip; the sound is a stand-in. Add the song folder and its recordings are the real thing.

My song is mostly audio — will that work?

With the song folder, yes: drop the folder (the .song with its Media folder), or a zip of it, and every audio event plays from your copy. With the .song alone, audio tracks have nothing to play, and the studio tells you how many are missing.

How long can the song be?

Up to 20 minutes and 40,000 notes for the stand-in render.

How do I export an MP3 from Studio One itself?

Song → Export Mixdown, choose MP3 as the format and the bitrate, and press OK. That renders with the song's own plugins, so it only sounds right on a machine that has all of them — everywhere else, a stand-in is the honest option.

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  • A .song is the arrangement; the audio is in the folder beside it

    Studio One keeps a song as a folder: the .song document, a Media folder with every recording and imported file, and the presets and history beside them. The .song names each audio file by path and holds the instrument parts' notes inside itself. So the .song alone renders the writing — every part on a stand-in — and the song folder, or a zip of it, renders the recordings too, at their positions, under their track names, with the part's gain and the event's fades. A file the song points at outside its folder (a sample on another drive) is not in the drop and plays silent; the studio says how many.

  • Stand-in instruments, and when to want more

    Each instrument track is played by the instrument the studio already plays it with: a General MIDI program chosen from the track's name, so "Bass" gets a bass, "Keys" a piano, "Kick" and "Snare" a drum kit. Presence, Mai Tai, Impact, and every VST and AU the song names are not in the file, and nothing here loads a plugin for you. The notes, their timing, the tempo map — holds and ramps — survive the trip; the sound is a stand-in. Signed in, Sources re-plays any track on a modelled instrument. Neither is the mix Song → Export Mixdown makes in Studio One. That one only comes out of Studio One, with its plugins installed.

  • One bitrate, and one thing to keep straight

    256 kbps is the only bitrate on offer here: no slider, no quality menu, nothing to get wrong. A four-minute track lands close to 8 MB — one stereo file that plays on a phone, in a car, in a message, on a submission form. The thing to keep straight is generation loss: re-import an MP3 bounce and export again, and what the first pass threw away is gone for good. Bounce WAV to keep working, MP3 to send.

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